BELL TOWER, SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1161163
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- Statutory Address:
- BELL TOWER, SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- BELL TOWER, SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tydd St. Giles
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 42733 16448
Details
TF 41 NW TYDD ST. GILES CHURCH LANE
3/72 (East Side)
Bell Tower, south-east
GV of Church of St Giles
I
Bell tower, late C13 except for bell-stage which is C16 or C17. Barnack limestone to
first two stages with bell-stage of red brick with stone quoins. Embattled and of
three stages with hipped roof, three stage set-back buttressing and newel staircase in
south-east corner. Open sided ground stage with two sides blocked in C17. Each side
has two-centred arch of three chamfered orders with half-round columns to responds
with moulded capitals and bases. In each wall of first stage is a window (now
blocked) of three pointed lights with quatrefoil to head in two-centred arch of two
moulded orders, each on an attached shaft.
VCH (Cambs), Vol.IV, p.229.
Pevsner (Buildings of England), p.475.
Listing NGR: TF4273316448
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48147
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 475
Salzman, L F , The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 229
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
